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As others here pointed out, Meta does not have a good history of launching completely new products separately and succeeding in it (except FB ofc). So it’s a wait and see.

If they’re going to ride on the coattails of the existing influencers, might make more sense to keep it a feature than a brand new app. The existing influencers would have no extra incentive to spend efforts on a whole new app if they’re addressing the same audience and won’t be gaining new set of audience.

Or keep it completely new to excite new wannabe influencers and they will put in the extra effort and drive activity at the beginning.

The "detail"I received is the same generic reply you've shared in the other thread.

I don't know what fly's internal processes are, but I suspect the reviewer had to have submitted some bit of internal feedback on each submissions on why they're okaying it or not. A filtered version of it or even a separate candidate specific feedback would be just enough.

I've been at the hiring side of the table for many years and every time we share a handcrafted feedback to interviewees that we have passed on, we always heard back good things. They know we respected their time (and them), even if they don't agree with the particular feedback.

This feedback is not meant for them to get "better" or something. My point is, it could even be 2 hours the candidate spends, the least they deserve is knowing that it was actually looked at.

Mirrors my experience.

The job listing promised mountains and that it will take few hours and they’ll take time in their feedback,etc.

except i just got a generic reply that “we’re not satisfied with the solution”. For something that took ~10 hours, i was at the least expecting a vague pointers on whys. I even sent an one pager explaining style decisions, caveats, etc. It was pretty insulting.

And when asked for a follow up, got a more generic bs about how the evaluation criteria is honed from their years of experience and that is not something they share outside.

One good thing that is it made me realise interviewing still sucks and i just stopped looking for jobs.

Same for zurich and geneva as well. It’s almost a meme here for finding rental apartments within nominal budgets.

They’re nice to live “if” you could afford to.

I'm doing a speedrun of sorts trying to build a product every 2 weeks. This is mostly to satisfy the builder in me and to exercise the product shipping muscles.

For a long time, with full time jobs and consulting gigs I was never able to do what I loved the most, just programming. It was always superseded with other "business" stuff that it is has been ages when I could just put my heads down and work on something. So, this is an excuse to not focus on the nitty-gritty of business related things and just build and ship products.

Also, I had a growing list of ideas and a fomo along with it. So, i wanted to give a shot in attempting a fair number of them in short time.

With just a backpack, it is already nightmare through security. I can't imagine walking back and forth fishing out that one last thing over and over from all the nooks and crannies.

I could relate at multiple levels.

I suffered from series of burnout, bordering depression, for the longest of time without even realizing I'm going through one. When I lost the will to work, I attributed it to the work isn't interesting and took on more side projects to "keep it interesting". When that didn't work, I thought I just lost it and this is how long it's supposed to last.

I did every commonly suggested things, exercised very regularly, kept myself fit, quit smoking (2 years now), didn't drink, solo travel, etc., but nothing really resolved it completely. (thinking back now, maybe it's those things that kept everything at bay)

For me what finally moved the needle noticeably was when I started introspecting consistently (i do with everyday notes). I strived to have clear reasonings for why i do what i do, taking a third person view on certain emotions and diagonsing/troubleshooting it as you would a bug. This had led me to make several changes in my life/career sever of which i don't think i would've done otherwise.

I don't believe there is one solution fits all nor one solution for everything. I arrived at this after attempting all of these above and even I can't say for sure if it is THE ONE thing that solved, most likely it's a combination of everything else as well.

Unfortunately what works for you can only be figured out by you and only by doing it can you tell if it's the one. Keep iterating.

Apples to oranges imo. We’re talking about a journal (with photos and audio and whatnot) here.

Also, i think keeping it in a physical format is more vulnerable from others accidentally reading it than in a phone which is the most private to me as an individual.

Excited for the journal app! I was always uncomfortable trusting any of the existing apps and inevitably censor or give up writing my thoughts.

I’ve even tried building several (4(!)) journaling apps in the past and it’s still an unsolved problem for me. Right now i use a mix of obsidian and a self built journal app but that obviously has some drawbacks on its own.

Microjournaling, photo context and able to share (along with local e2e) are on top of my list. Looks like it solves many of it.

While I like players such as Proton entering the Password manager space, I hope they don't lose focus with the multitudes of products.

What I liked about Proton was the simplicity on just one product and executing it well, but lately they've kept on adding new products some in their wheelhouse and aligns well (VPN for example), but some a stretch (Drive/Calendar).

Obligatory xkcd - https://xkcd.com/2501

One more I'll add is to show/say some response, anything.

One group of people I've found difficult to interact with is those who won't show any emotion or acknowledgement. It could just be a visual cue, a nod or a smile.

I've noticed when the other party doesn't provide any visual cues, we tend to talk more either into hard pressed convincing or make some assumptions to go in depth into it until we get a response.

I've noticed that I talk usually more than necessary to someone who is quiet. I've tried being on the other side and have noticed the same behavior from the counter-party. I guess we are hard wired to get some or any response for our contributions.

I don't mind. It's mostly via Slack app directory, sometimes I get through my links. I specifically wanted to build an idea in a marketplace to solve the discovery problem (as I suck at outbound marketing or any marketing in general).

If you're looking to build in any marketplace, shopify is more strealimed as majority of the shopify's users spends on the apps (and the billing and stuff is integrated) compared to any other marketplace.

I've just changed into the per-user pricing (From fixed rate) to give better flexibility for organizations of all sizes. Would look into the pricing again in 6 months based on how it performs for now.

Io be honest, i'm not much of an expert on this either. I've built several projects and have abandoned midway.

I put down all of my ideas with a title and 2 lines of description on evernote whenever it strikes (mostly when seeing a problem, there could be other solutions that exists for this problem at this point).

And whenever in an unrelated instance I encounter a variation of the problem again, which if I believe could've been solved by that idea that I had, I give it a serious thought into researching for solutions and if none exists, I get to build.

I wouldn't call this an ideal process, it just works for me. The bad side-effect I have come to realise from this process is, I build products for which there doesn't exist a solution, which means either the market isn't there or isn't big enough.

The previous project was the same situation (fileql.com, ended up selling it) and now RosterBird. They stay small for relatively long time as you also have to convince users that they have a problem in the first place.

Thank you for the feedback, it is excellent. This homepage was done by me last month and you are correct. It speaks more of the offerings than exactly what it does or how it works. I'll get on it today.

As to what it does, It's basically a Rostering app for Slack teams to automate turn rotation and assign for who has to perform tasks when.

Users can setup their roster by selecting the interval (Daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly), notification time and select the squad members. RosterBird will automatically assign members per the configuration (factor in off days, absences, etc) and notify the assignee on their turn.

I'm working on additional features that allows the team members to book their convenient slots themselves instead of auto-assigning, that should give a different angle to the app and increase the potential usage, hopefully.

Running https://rosterbird.com on the side for 2 years now. It's oscillating between $800-$900 mrr for the past 3 months.

I originally wanted it to be a passive income project but it has grown in scope before I even realized.

Building and maintaining a B2B SaaS on the side is pretty draining. There's always more features, support requests, etc. Wouldn't recommend unless it takes off immediately or it is within a nice niche or you're planning to take it full time.

I've thought about either selling it (and start any other project) or properly growing it (launch in MS teams, shift capabilites, etc) for many months now.

Would appreciate if anyone has any thoughts.

Very much This. With the first-mover advantage, lack of VC interest in the Indian Fi space, the compliance load for any upstarts has led Zerodha to enjoy a competitive free landscape of the "Commission free mutual funds" and "Low cost stock trading".

That is changing rapidly with the huge inflow of VC money into the financial sector in the last 5 years with countless startups fueled by VC money and incumbents upping their offering had begun to capture / steel away their market.

They would be pressured into growing to compete with them sooner if not already.

I'm on the same boat, burnt by Evernote and trying to find the good alternative. Sticking with Obsidian for now with some apple notes in-between. But the former has too many features I don't need and later has this vendor lock-in.

If I ever built a note taking app, I'll be using your tag line as a subtitle and a guiding principle :)

"...just a list of notes with some formatting and sync capabilities"

It is hard.

First you need a purpose, a motivation. Not the kind you get on a sudden morning, but a visualization of how the end result is going to be. Because, the sudden motivations will go at the same speed it came to you. But many of these things needs a lifestyle change and lifestyle change needs consistency and for consistency you need to have something to hold on it.

Unless you have those "vision" to see yourself of, it is very hard to motivate yourself when you don't have results or if you're not motivated. Then again, many of these things I have heard in my early years but took the later half to figure out and settle on. So give it time, it will come.

In reality it's much easier. I've sold couple of my projects before via different mediums (one is through microacquire - the one OP mentioned, and one was through a connect), and the best way i found to go about it is to be ready to walk away from the deal.

I know this is negotiations 101, but it's tough to put it in practice most of the time if one person wants a little bit more to see the transaction through. Surprisingly, communications skill doesn't play that big of a role, unless you really want to "sell it" most of the conversations goes the same way OP mentioned.

Some memories with those time. We used missed calls for varying reasons depending on the people we interact with.

* When going to meet someone, first missed calls says you've started, then the second missed calls says you've reached. This will be informed before hand while scheduling the meet.

* You're supposed to reject when you're expecting a mutually agreed missed call, and if the call comes the 2nd time immediately, then you should pick up.

* During meets, there usually is one organizer who everyone gives missed call to update their status and they'll follow-up with another missed call to those who didn't update. I know it sounds complicated, but it surprisingly isn't.

* Before mobile, landline was pretty common and caller IDs were almost non-existent, missed calls with a pattern are the way to denote that its you that's calling to make sure her parents does not pick up the phone :). One ring, then two rings, and she should be near the phone for the next call to pick (you hope and pray its not her dad, again.) and pretend to talk with a friend.

It was via microacquire.com, the MRR was mostly around ~$90 for a year or so and was on the same when sold. Expenses were around ~$5/mo. so just kept it on maintenance mode.

I decided to sell primarily because there were lots of enterprise companies' interests with people reaching out for bulk pricing and stuff, but I've really lost motivation on this project at that point so put it up for sale if anyone's interested to take it in that direction.

Congratulations is due! The journey sounds very similar to what I'm going through, though in my case acquisition was the end result, couldn't see it through to the 3 digit $$.

Built an app 3 years ago, just kept at it and it was on a constant cycle of losing interest and suddenly bursting out features then losing interest again over and over.

Nevertheless, I get the grind and I respect it. It isn't easy keeping at something for these many years on the side especially without any rewards. There will be this inevitable impulse to just kill it and move on to the new one when after the excitement wanes off (it definitely makes sense for certain projects). Kudos for keeping it up!

Keep on going.

One other excellent way to throw off the maintenance developer is to define & use LOTS of dynamic methods in obfuscated locations.

Step up your game by defining those methods from a DB entry.

(I wish I was making this sinister plan up for satirical purposes)

Apple took the "Fire your bad customer" way too seriously...

Its Rails+Postgres on the backend & Vuejs (TS) on the frontend. Hosting is done through dokku on a Hetzner VPS cloud.

Under the hood the frequency is also handled as numbers (0/1), there is a way for users to change the type if desired from Boolean to X Times, but complications stem when they want to do the other way around.

Some of the main pain points it might introduced are into visualizing the historical data. When you've been saying yes & No, and suddenly you want to track count, you'd see bit of inconsistency on how the data is presented. This proves hinderance to further work on finding the patterns. Hence why..

The way it is structured now, tracker is a one immutable component of type & frequency and when one of it changes, its a whole new tracker. This would simplify the experience for the user down the line. Rest assured, if this seems to be bothering users much, I'm willing to see if it could be done the other way as well.

> Any plans for native mobile apps, or web only?

Definitely! I put off building this for sometime mainly because I wanted to do it as App first. But since web version had a faster iteration, i got this one out to start with. I've already did some work on the app front and hopefully will get it out by this year end.

I've attached some screenshots on the parent's reply, here it is - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3h6xg78lfc402k5/AAAwAYw3Yohsvp84c...

As for the pricing, I really haven't decided on one and when to charge. But rest assured, I've always planned to grandfather users who signed up before any payment plan is launched. Basically, anything you use for free when you signup will forever be free.